Ethan Indigo Smith via Waking Times: “Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” ~ Pericles Everything is ultimately political these days,…

Rmuse via Politics USA: For several years, if not decades, Republicans have, and still do, claim that any American who is not anti-government, anti-taxation, anti-women’s rights, anti-immigration, anti-theocracy, and anti-democracy is a…

via BBC: Vibrant online communities? Or cesspools of abuse? Have comments had their day? The debate about comment sections on news sites is often as divisive as the comments themselves. Recently outlets…

Paul Saffo via Pacific Standard: The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes…

The Nordic think tank, Demos Helsinki, has created 10 principles for the so-called “Internet of Things.” Here are the first three: Planet Earth is becoming hyperconnected. This transformation is called the Internet…

Back in September of 2014, Newsweek ran this article: The West’s Greatest Threat is the ‘Lone Wolf’ Terrorist, Say Security Experts. The article mentions that, “Jean-Pierre Filiu, professor of Middle East studies…

Do you want to know the hidden laws that reveal how the Internet grows, how viruses spread, and how financial bubbles burst? Quanta Magazine reports on new research explaining explosive network growth:…

Phil Watt via Waking Times: Humanity has lost its connection to nature. We’re so bombarded with artificial imagery and ideals of superficial living that most of us think taking in an occasional sunset…

Stuart Mason Dambrot via Phys.org: (Phys.org)—Constructing quantum computers and other quantum devices requires the ability to leverage quantum properties such as superposition and entanglement – but these effects are fragile and therefore…